also pictures of the vehicle in which those suspects engaged in this incredibly intense shootout with police. we ve been told that a lot of ammunition was recovered at the scene. that obviously would be some of that ammunition. so they re releasing those pictures. they were also able to be specific about the event that was the site of the shooting. the police chief saying just tonight that it was a department of public health event. so this was a san bernardino county of public health event. and there had been conflicting reports about whether this was some sort of meeting or whether it was a banquet or whether it was a holiday party. we now know it was a little bit of each. as the police chief described it, it was sort of training in the morning that was transitioning to a holiday party in the afternoon. we also for the first time have some numbers in terms of the number of people who may have been on scene. we ve been told the room in which the massacre happened held something like 2
are of weapons that were recovered at the scene. we believe those to be the weapons used by the shooters at the inland regional center. they were recovered at that suv. both long guns and handguns. you see extra magazines there. also pictures of the vehicle in which those suspects engaged in this incredibly intense shootout with police. we ve been told that a lot of ammunition was recovered at the scene. that obviously would be some of that ammunition. so they re releasing those pictures. they were also able to be specific about the event that was the site of the shooting. the police chief saying just tonight that it was a department of public health event. so this was a san bernardino county of public health event. and there had been conflicting reports about whether this was some sort of meeting or whether it was a banquet or whether it was a holiday party. we now know it was a little bit of each. as the police chief described it, it was sort of training in the morning that was trans
those fire alarms were going off and the sprinklers were going off, and people were screaming in pain who had been hurt. we now know 21 people had been hurt. that was it didn t necessarily add to the bullet points of factual information that we had about exactly what happened here and why it may have happened but that was the most remarkable firstperson account we ve heard from any law enforcement officer who s been involved in this at all. in terms of the new information we ve just been given, and again, we don t expect a further briefing from law enforcement tonight, the san bernardino police chief who s done so much of this briefing, police chief jarrod burguan from san berpdo, he gave some very specific new information tonight. first they did release some new pictures, pictures that were recovered from the scene of the shootout we believe with officers. as you can see there, some of the images they re releasing to the public right now as we speak
november 2009 u.s. army ranger nidal hassan opened fire. he at fort hood in texas. he killed 13 people and wounded 32 others. but then two years after that, two years after that very high-profile attack, you might remember there was another plot against ft. hood by another u.s. soldier. law enforcement officials say an army private who wanted out of the service because he s a muslim plotted this attack, saying he wanted to get even with the military for the fighting in iraq and afghanistan. investigators say his targets were fellow soldiers at the army sprawling ft. hood. texas police revealed today that they arrested private first class nasser jason abdu at a motel yesterday in fort hood. in his room atf agents found enough explosives to make at least two time bombs. the police chief called abdu very dangerous. so in the summer of 2011 the would-be attacker of fort hood planned on setting off bombs at
we ve been told the room in which the massacre happened held something like 200 or 250 people in terms of its capacity. we hadn t previously known how many people might have been in that room. and by extension what proportion of those people were hurt or wounded hurt or killed. we now know according to the police chief that there were 91 invited guests at that event and they had some sort of sign-in sheet to check people in as they arrived. 91 people were invited. they believe somewhere between 71 and 80 people were in the room when the shooting actually happened. of that number of people we now know a significant proportion were killed or wounded. again, if there were 80 people in that room and we re talking about 14 people killed and 21 people wounded, 35 people out of 80 being shot is remarkable. in terms of the people who were killed and who were wounded, we do also have some we have names of the victims in terms of those who were killed that we ll be talking about a little lat